One of our developers wants to create a reusable report where the
pipe-delimited output generated by SQL*Plus would be sent off and used as
input into another process. The problem is the remarks field which is of
type long. It causes ORA-00997 errors. If I take the pipe-delimits off,
the report works o.k. If I take the remarks field out, the report works
o.k. There seems to be an incompatibility between the two. The
developer wants to have the remarks column included in the report and she
also wants the fields to be delimited somehow.

I saw an informative document on Metalink about the ORA-997 error but there
is no work-around suggested. Does anyone have any bright ideas? It is
not possible to convert the long within the database, at this time. This
database will be obsolete in a few months so it's not worth the hassle to
recode all of the apps that use this field.

34* AND ccd.posted_amt = erli.line_item_amt
SQL> /
erh.remarks
*
ERROR at line 11:
ORA-00997: illegal use of LONG datatype

Thanks for any advice.

Cherie Machler
Oracle DBA
Gelco Information Network

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